The story

But it did.

I had spent over a decade building a career I was proud of. Advertising degree in 2013. An agency stint working on campaigns for major brands. Then a master’s in Online Marketing in Madrid that pulled me into the world of media buying, digital strategy, and eventually managing marketing across channels — online, offline, all of it.

I climbed. Country Marketing Manager. Regional Marketing Manager. Vertical Manager. Product Owner. And then, just before my first child was born, I reached what I’d always been working toward: Marketing Director.

I had also, somewhere along the way, moved from the Dominican Republic to Madrid, and then from Madrid to Valencia. Built a life in a country that wasn’t mine. Learned to navigate a different culture, a different pace, different rules — without my family nearby, without my people around the corner.

I thought I had figured out how to handle complexity.

The part they don’t tell you

Nothing in my career prepared me for the mental load of motherhood.

Not the project management experience. Not the years of juggling regional teams and marketing budgets and competing priorities. Not even the pandemic, which pushed me fully into remote work in 2020 and taught me to operate without structure I could see.

Motherhood is a different kind of complexity. It’s invisible work, constant decisions, zero recovery time, and a complete identity renegotiation — all happening simultaneously, all while the world keeps moving.

And I was doing it abroad. Without family close. Without the village.

I searched for resources that understood this specific experience — the millennial mom with a real career, living far from home, trying to figure out how her old self fits into this new life. I didn’t find much that was honest about it.

So I started writing.

What Mamá Remoto actually is

This blog is not a highlight reel.

It’s not a productivity influencer account. It’s not a perfectly curated motherhood aesthetic.

I write about the systems that have helped me survive — and occasionally thrive — as a remote-working mother of two. About the mental load that nobody audits. About the routines that hold when everything else falls apart. About what it actually looks like to do meaningful work and raise small humans at the same time, with no family safety net, in a culture that isn’t the one you grew up in.

My topics may evolve. I’m still figuring some of this out. But that’s the point — I’m sharing what I wished I had before I became a mom, and documenting how I’m growing into this phase in real time.

If you’re a millennial mom navigating remote work, life abroad, or just the gap between the career you built and the mother you’re becoming, you’re in the right place.

I built the Anti-Chaos Weekly System because I needed a planning tool that worked on the hard weeks, not just the perfect ones. It’s the system I wish I’d had in my first year of motherhood.